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Mighty Young Billionaires

by admin on March 10, 2008

It seems that the ultra rich are getting that way younger and younger. There’s many who simply inherited a pile of cash such as Yang Huiyan, who’s China’s richest woman. She has a $7.4 billion fortune, given by her father, Yeung Kwok Keung.
Many did it the old fashion way, they earned it. The Ukraine’s youngest [...]

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Bill Gates Cure - “Creative Capitalism”

by admin on February 11, 2008

The success story of Bill Gates is nothing but spectacular. But by the very same markets that made him rich, he now wants to overhaul capitalism. The founder of Microsoft is calling for a new economics that could help change the world.
Speaking recently at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Gates praised technology and science for making [...]

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Who’s Managing My Money?

by admin on January 24, 2008

 
After the slaughter of the Dot.com bust and stock market free-fall, many people took managing their investments into their own hands.  Mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer Susan Pravda recalls, “I had a money market fund here, a stock brokerage account there, and a bunch of 401(k) plans floating around.” Even she had excellent returns, Pravda still  wonders whether she might [...]

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Carlos Slim, the Richest Man In the World

by admin on October 20, 2007

“I remember there was a time when the value of his enterprises was very low,” recalls Patrick, the youngest son of Carlos Slim Helú. It was the early 1980s, and Mexico was in the depths of a massive financial crisis. Periodically the elder Slim would round up his three teenage sons for an economics lesson. [...]

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Money Buys Happiness, But You Set the Price

by admin on October 20, 2007

There once was a doctor who really wanted to quit his career in medicine and become a rabbi. There was a small snag. During his rabbinical studies he would have to sell his large house in an upscale neighborhood. That would mean uprooting his family, so he consulted his three daughters. Full article

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